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WC11: Terry Moore Spotlight
If you believe self-publishing comics veteran Terry Moore, 2011 is going to be a singularly transformative year for comics, especially for the relationship between readers and independent creators.
Moore shook loose a few newsy bits during his Friday panel at WonderCon, dropping details on his new series "Rachel Rising" and "How to Draw," and the progress of the "Echo" TV show, but spent more of the hour talking about art: its form, its meaning, its role in life and its future. And as he sees it, the immediate future is damned exciting.
"That's the reason I'm doing something like 15 cons this year," Moore said. "In 2011, we're going to turn the industry upside down, and I want to be there.
"I'm worried about my peers who aren't coming out to a con this year," he continued. "It changed in the last month. Everyone I met in the last three cons, they all have big announcements coming."
Interviewer Charles Brownstein, an old friend of Moore's and head of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, pressed the creator, pointing out big announcements come out of comic conventions every year. What's special about the announcements in 2011?
"People aren't talking about their book. It's about their mediums," Moore said, referring to the increased interest in digital comics. "It's about how you're going to make comics, how you're going to read comics, and 2011 is the turning point."
Digital media has been available for years, of course, and numerous successful comics have launched in web-only formats, but Moore said he sees a new breakthrough lying ahead.
"I think what's going on is, we've been missing a couple of tools to put (digital comics) in everyone's hands," he said. One of the chief problems has been monetizing the audience to make it a sustainable effort for the creator.
"I draw a page a day, and at dinnertime it's on Photoshop and it looks fantastic," Moore said. "I can hit a button and you guys can see it with me in three minutes. Why am I not doing that? The reason is, I haven't found a way to get anybody to pay for anything… besides dirty pictures. I think that's sorting out this year.
"Everybody wants to be the iTunes of comics," he continued, "which is what comiXology is trying for, but they're still a middle man between the creator and the audience. In 2011, we're going to get tools in our hands that will make the pipeline go direct."
As for "Rachel Rising," Moore's third major project in comics after the non-genre epic "Strangers in Paradise" and the shorter, sci-fi follow up, "Echo," the concept is taken from an idea Moore had planned for his run on DC's "Birds of Prey" series, but didn't have the chance to use.
"It's a supernatural story about a woman who is killed and then wakes up," Moore said. "It's not zombies, not ghosts. I have a new trick on it."
The character would have been a new figure in "Birds of Prey" had Moore lasted more than three issues on that series. "I had a vision of the characters fighting this character they could not figure out, who brought a unique, dark side to the series," he said. "I kept that in my pocket and now I'm taking it out."
Comparing the project to his other creator-owned work, Moore said, "'Strangers in Paradise' was like a TV show that could have gone on forever. 'Echo' was more like a movie, in that I knew where I wanted to go with it and then it would be done. 'Rachel Rising' is a TV series. I want to build a world again."
Fundamentally, Moore said, he hopes the book, and his writing as a whole, will provide the feeling of escape he feels all good fiction provides, but also provide readers with some hope and some belief in themselves.
"We all tend to like to think that we're going to make it," he said. "I think it's the job of writers to instill hope into their societies. Dickens, even Poe in his own way, there was a lesson there. The good writers tend to be an asset to their society, as opposed to an acid to their society. For example, a lot of beat writers, a lot of that was acidic work. We don't read much of it today because it's not relevant."
Now in his 50s, Moore said, "I look like a middle aged dentist, which I'm not happy about, but inside is something beautiful, and I'm just a clay vessel to get it out.
"What I have to do is live properly and work with my tools so it comes out and gets on the page. And then it goes to Germany or anywhere and six years later somebody reads it and they feel some of what I felt then. That's what art can do. If you listen to Chopin, you're having same feeling he had when he figured it out."
Moore also talked about his developing efforts at teaching, which will find their way into print in June via the first issue of a series called "How to Draw."
"After 17 years in the chair, I have something to share, so I'm going to share it," Moore said, joking, "I want to focus on how I'm cheating at comics."
"The first issue is how to draw women. Doesn't mean how everybody should, just how I do it," he said. "But for example, there are two types of girl hands: some where fingers bend back and the pinky will bend easily and there's some where it won't. Some girls have a bump on the wrist, some girls have it, some don't. I'm just going to share stuff like that."
A fan asked about the progress in turning "Echo" into a TV series.
"The rights were purchased two years ago by Lloyd Levin, who was the producer for 'Watchmen' and 'Hellboy,'" Moore said "He's a great producer. If you ever want to see what Lloyd does, watch 'Watchmen' with sound off so you don't hear the bad acting.
"Lloyd is very, very serious. I feel good about it;. I'm in great hands. In the last two months, he acquired one of the best screenwriters in Hollywood. He's building his core team. [He] starts that way and then they talk the whole town into it."
Answering another fan question — about how "Echo" changed between the time Moore thought of it and how it will soon end with #30 — Moore compared the creative process to real life.
"It's a road trip," he said. "You say, OK, the story's about this, this and this. Or you say, 'We're going to LA today.' That's my plot. You get out there on the road and things happen, and that's what happens with each individual page."
"When I start a page, I say, 'OK, so and so is going to happen,'" he added. "But it's like a live shoot with actors in rehearsal: I get a line, and it makes me think of trying something else, which makes me think of something else.
"What I always come up with first is ordinary, and it scares me," More said. "I need to trump it."
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When using a shared or public computer, it's often necessary to leave no trails of your navigation history. Firefox remembers information about you when you surf the web, such as visited sites, cookies, downloads, and preferences. If you want to clear your history, follow these steps:
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Letters to the Editor
So, What's So Fair About Act 60?
Regarding your Nov. 26 article explaining how our governor, Howard Dean, plans to mitigate the economic effects of Act 60 on people in property-rich towns -- those who are have-a-lots ("Vermont Governor Seeks to Ease School-Tax Plan "). The following is a sense of what many of us -- have-not-a-lots and have-a-lots alike -- think will be the act's effects on public education in Vermont.
To my fellow have-not-a-lots, dog lovers all: Socialism certainly is warm and fuzzy. Oh, not the...


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A challenge to climb, fully roped up, on a tall tree. Those successful in climbing the full 12 m can ring the bell at the top. The group can be involved in helping with the belaying, to develop team trust.
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Sunday, 24 July 2016
Week 251- angry drivers, a raging world and the strength of kindness...
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Just having a blog is not enough. It should add credibility to your website and increase your online visibility via regular traffic. However, whether you want people to sign up to your newsletter, buy from you online or just comment on your blog, it's not always easy to convert visitors to your objectives
Mark White (MW), founder of marketing consultancy Better Business Blogging, explains how blogging can help generate conversions.
How do I attract traffic to my blog?
MW: "Include a link to your blog in your emails, put it on your business card or stationery, and mention it on your website's home page. You should also comment on other blogs and tell people about it through social networking sites.
"Make sure your blog is attractive to search engines such as Google - for example, find out how to put advanced search engine optimisation in place."
How can I set up a blog that will convert visitors to my objectives?
MW: "You need to have a clear idea of what you want your blog to achieve. Your objective could be to get subscriptions for your newsletter, to generate customer feedback or to encourage people to buy from your online shop."
What are the key steps to converting blog visitors?
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"Layout is also critical for conversions. When your eyes read a screen they focus more on the top and left-hand side, so those are the areas where you want your link to your product page or your contact details to be, depending on your objective."
What should I write on my blog to encourage conversions?
MW: "Write about things that will appeal to your identified audience and spell out what it is that you want them to do after reading the blog, for example 'click on this link to subscribe to our newsletter'."
How can I measure conversions?
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How much time do I need to invest?
MW: "If you have the technology and design in place, you only have to spend time writing content, marketing it and tracking your conversions.
"Try to write two posts a week. You don't have to update it every day, but once a month is too infrequent because the audience just won't engage with you."


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Your hall looks nice! That is so sweet that you have displayed your grandparents wedding invitation along with yours. Your vintage books look nice. The only thing on my stairs are the piles of things that need to be carried upstairs and put away, like a sock that got dropped in the last load of laundry, and a pile of bills. :-)
Your entry is just gorgeous. I love the stairs and the books are such a great idea. The marble table is beautiful. What a treasure to have along with the wedding invitation. Stunning. Hugs, Marty
I noticed your marble top table rigt away! I have always loved them. You are lucky to have inherited such a lovely piece of furniture.
That antique table is gorgeous. It is definitely the star of your foyer.
Stopping by from The Girl Creative's New Friend Friday. Already a follower. Love the invitations!
What a neat idea putting the books on the stairs!
it looks great!!
How neat to have an invitation that old!! Have you thought about framing a wedding picture to sit on the table (or is there one and i missed it)?
Love the grandparents invitation. Really pretty and a beautiful heirloom to share. THanks for linking up today!
You have your grandparent's wedding invitation? That's amazing. I WISH I had something like that. I love that you display it too.
On another note, love that your wreath is inside the door instead of outside.


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Born 1967, New York, NY
Currently living and working in Buffalo, New York
2011 MFA, Visual Studies, The State University of New York at Buffalo
1991 BFA, cum laude, Sculpture and Photography, Purchase College, State University of New York
1986 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (filmmaking and animation coursework)
Eye to Eye: Looking Beyond Likeness, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
Displacement: Shooting Through History, (with Courtney Grim), Trans Empire Canal Corporation, Burchfield Penney Arts Center, Buffalo NY
Performance Anxiety: Halflife, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, commissioned performance w/10,000 performers, and exhibition, Toronto, ON
Echo Art Fair, Buffalo NY
Unreliable (S)pace, collaboration with Kyle Butler, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo NY
Let There Be Light / Interference, solo exhibition, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo NY
Balloon Gods, @ Showoffs, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo NY
BYOB BPAC, "Ception" video screening, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo NY
Echo Art Fair, Buffalo NY
Beijing/Buffalo: Translation, Today Museum, Beijing, China
Buffalo/Beijing: Translation, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
Sex, Time Decay, solo exhibition, Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo NY
Killed Covers, A Selection of Rejected Book Jackets, The New York Times, New York NY
Gender Bending Buffalo, @ Stimulus, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo NY
Beyond The Multitude, Blink 464, Buffalo NY
Attention: Artgoers, Artspace Gallery, Buffalo NY
Zoetrope, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
Big Night, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Buffalo NY
Peregrine Press, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland ME
Digital Art 2001, Macworld Conference & Expo, Jacob Javitz Center, New York NY
As Photography Progresses, White Noise, Los Angeles CA
2014 Halflife, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto ON, October 4-5, 2014
Halflife, Art Gallery of Toronto (AGO), Toronto ON, October 2, 2014
2013 The Vintage Vaudeville Cabaret, Master of Ceremonies, The 9th Ward, Buffalo NY
2012 "Boodith Jutler" MC's Showoffs, Hallwalls Artists & Models, Buffalo NY
"Boodith Jutler" MC's Gender Across Border: Arts, Action, Activism, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo NY
Jackie Collins Night: An Evening of Screenings & Readings, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo NY
2011 The Vessel is Singing, Sensorium, curated by Heather Pesanti, The Backroom, Buffalo NY
2010 The Vessel is Failing, at University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
2010-14 Saving Us From Destruction, ongoing collaborative dance project, Buffalo NY
2015 Guapamacatáro Art & Ecology Residency, Michoacán, Mexico
2014 Artist of the Year, Arts Services Initiative of Western New York
2012 Regional Artist Access Residency, Squeaky Wheel
2011 Excellence in Teaching Award, honorable mention, University at Buffalo
2011 Exchange Residency, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
2010 Dean's Fellowship, University at Buffalo, College of Arts & Sciences
Teaching Fellowship, University at Buffalo, College of Arts & Sciences
2009 CEPA Solo Exhibition Award, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo NY
Dean's Fellowship, University at Buffalo, College of Arts & Sciences
Teaching Fellowship, University at Buffalo, college of Arts & Sciences
2007 AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers (for Pharmakon, Penguin Group USA, NY)
2005 AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers (for Eleanor Rigby, Simon & Schuster, NY)
2003 Creativity Magazine 32, Gold Medal (for Inter-Office Male, Warner Books)
Spinner Awards honorable mention, print
Spinner Awards honorable mention, illustration
2015 BABEL, Facilitator for Patti Smith's Just Kids Discussion, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Buffalo NY
2014 Karen Finley's Artists Anonymous, Designated Artist Testimonial, Hallwalls Contemporary ARts Center, Buffalo NY
"Haunted Peripheries," Block Club Magazine, No. 37 "Borders" (2014): 54-25.
"The Siege," Block Club Magazine, No. 36 "Shhhh" (2014): 56-59.
2013 "The Sacred and the Banal" with curator Heather Pesanti, ZING magazine, No.#23 (2013): 207-221.
2012 Why Media Literacy Matters, Squeaky Wheel Buffalo Media Resource (curriculum program)
2011 The Dionysian Divinity of Rebecca Horn, essay, University at Buffalo
Yin Warrior, essay, University at Buffalo
The MILF Manifesto, essay, University at Buffalo
2010 Cyborg Theory, Cyborg Practice (limited edition monograph, self-published)
2008 Massaging the Letterform, TypeCon presentation, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo NY
2007 Stop Believing What You See, Pecha Kucha Buffalo vol. 5 presentation, Hallwalls Cont. Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
1999 "Knot," Letterbomb Literary Magazine, Los Angeles CA
2015-23 The Clock Years, single-channel broadcast video, 4 hours, in 8 episodes
2014 Letti Cuts, single-channel video, 13 minutes
2011 Ception (Come, Bood, Milk), single-channel video, 4 minutes, looping
2010 Kat Cuts, single-channel video, 7 minutes
Focus, single-channel video, 5 minutes
Ruby Does Pollock, single-channel video, 6.5 minutes
Daisy Chain, single channel video, 5 minutes
2005 Ruby Goes to Towne, 8mm film, 5 minutes
2003 Ten and a Half Weeks, single-channel video, 12 minutes
The Drop, 16mm film, 5 minutes
Colin Dabkowski, "13 Highlights from Nuit Blanche," Buffalo News, October 4, 2014
Matt Galloway, Interview, "Nuit Blanche 2014: 3 must-see installations," CDS NEWS, Toronto, ON, October 4, 2014
Colin Dabkowski, "Buffalo artists play starring role at annual Toronto art fesitval," Buffalo News, October 4, 2014
Colin Dabkowski, "Buffalo artists take center stage at Toronoto's all-night art fest Nuit Blanche," Buffalo News, September 30, 2014
Elizabeth Licata, "At center stage in Toronto-Buffalo," Buffalo Spree Magazine (blog), Talk About Arts, Annual, October 6, 2014
Amy Kitchen, "Some Untimely Thoughts: Nuit Blanche," HOMEJAMES (blog), October 9, 2014
Elizabeth Licata, "All night long," Buffalo Spree Magazine, Vol. 48, No. 10 (October 2014): 41, 44-45
Bruce Adams, "Artists to Watch," Buffalo Spree Magazine, Vol. 48, No. 3, Art in WNY cover story (March 2014): cover, 47.
John Paget, "ART BFLO," short documentary film for Visit Buffalo Niagara, November 2013
Paddy Johnson, "The Echo Art Fair, Day Two: Is This For Sale?," Art F City (blog), September 8, 2013
Colin Dabkowski, "Five Art Videos from 2013," Buffalo News (Gusto blog), December 23, 2013
Jack Foran, "Unreliable Narrators," Artvoice, Vol. 12, No. 25 (June 20, 2013).
Colin Dabkowski, "A Closer Look at Let There Be Light (Interference)," Buffalo News (video). March 9, 2013
Rachel Fix Dominguez, "Let There Be Light: a smart new installation at the Burchfield Penney's Useum," Buffalo Spree Magazine, May 2013
Lydia Dominick, Interview, "Let There Be Light," WGRZ-TV News, Buffalo, NY, May 11, 2013
Kay Monaco, "Buffalo's cover Girl: Shasti O'Leary-Soundant," Buffalo Rising, March 19, 2009
Cory Flintoff, "When a Low Point Becomes a Turning Point," Morning Edition, StoryCorps, National Public Radio, February 17, 2006
2015 Instructor, D'Youville College, Basic Design (studio)
2014 Instructor, University at Buffalo, Typography 2 (studio)
2012 Lecturer, University at Buffalo, Visual Theory, Aesthetics & Criticism (lecture, 160 students)
Instructor, University at Buffalo, Photography in the Extended Field (studio)
2011 Guest Lecturer, University at Buffalo, Visual Theory, Aesthetics & Criticism (lecture)
Teaching Fellow, Instructor of Record, University at Buffalo, Art and the Everyday (lecture & studio)
2010 Teaching Fellow, Instructor of Record, University at Buffalo, Digital Reproduction Processes (studio)
2009 Teaching Fellow, Instructor of Record, University at Buffalo, Visual Semiotics & Rhetoric (lecture & studio)
Teaching Assistant, University at Buffalo, Visual Theory, Aesthetics & Criticism
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo NY
Julian Sleath, Toronto ON
Allison Duchaine, Toronto ON
Judy Goodyear, Palm Beach FL
Dorothy & Richard Bergman, Amherst NY
Mr. & Mrs. Ted Pietrzak, Buffalo NY
Jackie Davis, Los Angeles, CA
Heather Pesanti, Austin TX
Gerald Mead, Buffalo NY
Ralph Delmont, Buffalo NY
Lawrence Leaven & John Carlino, Buffalo NY
Anthony Greco, Boulder CO


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In this wicked world of woe, there are hucksters, flimflammers, plain ol' crooks — and Republican members of the California State Assembly.
This last bunch of scoundrels went out of their way to monkey-wrench the rollout of President Obama's new health care law. Obama's computer geniuses were making a hash of the initial rollout in October, but the sign-up was finally smoothing out — and with any Obama success, GOP lawmakers automatically start tossing monkey wrenches.
This time, the tool they tossed is a fake website created by California Republican legislators in August to look like the state's official health exchange site, where people can sign up to get coverage under the Affordable Care Act. When things finally got worked out on the national health care exchange in November, the Repubs mailed a pamphlet to their constituents, directing them to the decoy site, calling it a "resource guide" to "help" them navigate the ACA sign-up process.
Far from help, however, the faux site is a trap. It's filled with boilerplate Republican propaganda against the law, gimmicks to discourage viewers from even applying for the health care they need, and a rash of distortions and outright lies.
There's so much bunkum on the site that its fine print includes a disclaimer saying they don't vouch for "the quality, content, accuracy, or completeness of the information" it provides.
The silliest thing about the lawmakers' blatantly political ploy is that even if it convinces some people to forgo the ACA's benefits, who does that hurt? Not Obama — but their own constituents! I know there's no IQ requirement to be a state legislator, but what were they thinking?
We can laugh at their low comedy, but if you're a California taxpayer, congratulations: You paid for the Republicans' bogus website and mailings.
Jim Hightower is the best-selling author of Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow, on sale now from Wiley Publishing. For more information, visit jimhightower.com.


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SOURCE: Terra Novo
July 23, 2014 14:25 ET
Georgia, North Dakota and Virginia DOTs Join the Growing List of State Departments Recommending Use of EarthGuard FM
BAKERSFIELD, CA--(Marketwired - July 23, 2014) - Terra Novo, a leading manufacturer of erosion and sediment-control products in Bakersfield, Calif., today announced the acceptance of its pre-packaged, one-step erosion- and sediment-control product, EarthGuard Fiber Matrix, as an approved erosion-control product by the state departments of transportation in Georgia, North Dakota and Virginia.
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text: Testimonials Cnr High St and London Quay, Picton, New Zealand 03 573 5630 Contact Us Cafe Cortado MenuHomeMenusBrunch / Lunch MenuDinner MenuTapasPizzasKid's MenuDessertsCoffeeBeveragesSpecialsSustainable CafeAboutTestimonialsGalleryEventsContact Testimonials "A fabulous way to loose yourself on Sunday" Reviewed July 17 2016 (Michael M)16/07/17We arrived in Picton post the Nelson morning drive; we skipped brekky in Havelock after we couldn't get served at Slip Inn. Don't waste your time in winter st Havelock. Took the scenic "windy" route & arrived in picturesque Picton. Stopped for lunch; canvassed the local & decided on Cafe Cortado. Great choice; tapas of chicken & calamari, & a serve of mussels & clams in lemongrass. Well worth avoiding lack of service & come here. Great staff, very helpful & beautiful, beautiful food. Thank you Cortado for s very special Sunday early afternoon! "Great vibes" Reviewed 25 April 2016 (JennieCohen)16/04/25Cafe Cortado has a great menu, friendly staff and a top location in Picton's High Street. I recommend it for a relaxing time in the sun. Dog friendly outside and they will get you some waters for your pooch as well - how good is that. "Friendly and delicious" Reviewed July 18 (KiwiSteph)We had a party of eight. We were seated quickly and brought drinks. Had a delicious kiwifruit cocktail. Food was amazing, the beef cheeks tender and juicy. Worth the visit! "Beautiful Meal" Reviewed October 9, 2017 (Robin G)Thank you for an awesome seafood meal. Also thanks to our awesome waitress Stephanie. She was professional friendly and attentive. All the points required to assist the diners to enjoy their visit. We had the battered blue cod and the seafood platter. Beautiful meal and that seafood platter! It needs to be marketed as the best seafood selection you can possibly eat before you leave the South Island. It was great. A water finger bowl would be a recommendation and going by the patrons of differing ages, those with children and elderly walking in seemed to be searching for tables and chairs rather than bench seats. We have really enjoyed our Picton dining. Thank you, and we will certainly recommend your restaurant to friends we know who are passing through. Regards from Robin View Map Contact Details Address: Cnr High St & London Quay, Picton Phone: 03 573 5630 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com (please phone rather than email for bookings) Opening Hours Summer (start Nov - end of April) 7 Days, 8am - Late Winter (start May- end of Oct) Mon & Tue - Closed Wed & Thu - 10am - 8.30pm Fri - 10am - 9.30pm, Sat - 8am - 9.30pm Sun - 8am - 8.30pm. Closed Christmas Day Open all other public holidays - no surcharge Join Our Mailing List Subscribe to receive information on special deals and upcoming events. Subscribe Contact | Sitemap © 2018 | Admin Login | Maintained by GuestTraction


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Planning well is the key to ensuring that you have control over your living and dying in later years, and how you will be remembered into the future.
You may think that completing your Last Will & Testament and putting a few stickers on special items to be passed on is planning well, but there is much more to consider if you really want to experience quality of life right to the end.
Planning well requires you to firstly understand what your options are, and from there you can make choices that suit you and your desired lifestyle, then you need to find the right planning tools to help you communicate those choices to those who need to know: your family, loved ones, doctors, palliative care support team etc.
Planning well and discussing it with your loved ones also helps them to be better prepared, and discussing your clearly-outlined wishes with your doctor, your aged care facility staff and other relevant medical practitioners heightens their ability to follow through on them.
Understanding the terminology
There are so many terms we have to understand if we want to feel empowered in later years. We've provided a glossary of these terms to help you understand these terms.
Access our Glossary of Terms or access our Living Well; Dying Well newsletter for more detailed information on the terminology you need to understand. Sign up here to receive the newsletter free.The Rest Easy Kit includes this information as a bonus.
In the meantime, here are a few to start you off:
Power of Attorney: When you appoint someone to act on your behalf in your financial dealings for a certain period of time – e.g. if you were going overseas.
Enduring Power of Attorney: When you appoint someone to act on your behalf for your financial dealings in the long term (usually when you have lost 'capacity' to make financial decisions).
Enduring Guardian: When you appoint someone to act on your behalf in deciding what health and well-being actions are to be taken in the long term, when you no longer have the capacity to do so.
Advance Care Planning: The health care choices you make should your health fail in later years. These can then be inserted into your Advance Care Directive.
Remember, planning well by learning about the issues and choices you have as you grow older provides you with options that will empower you in your later years.


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Icelandic skyr with blueberry sauce and sorbet kr. 6.500,-
- Fish soup "a la mason"
Lamb prime with Bearnaise sauce
Warm apple pie with whipped cream and vanilla ice cream kr. 8.700,-
- Smoked salmon on toasted bread with sauce and salad
Beef tenderloin, baked potato, vegetables and red wine sauce
Chocolate cake with whipped cream and coffee kr. 9.400,-
- Creamy mushroom soup
Braised lamb shank with glazed vegetables and mashed potatoes
Chocolate cake with whipped cream and coffee kr. 8.200,-
- Viking starter, herring, shark, dried fish and more
Garlic toasted lobster tails with garlic bread
Two kinds of ice cream with whipped cream and chocolate sauce kr. 9.100,-
- Vegetable soup
Chicken Breast with mushroom sauce
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Lamb steak with Bearnaise sauce, baked potato, vegetables and salad
Warm apple pie with whipped cream and vanilla ice cream kr. 8.700,-
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Did you know that listening to music can help you burn more calories? OK, it's not quite that simple, but studies have shown that upbeat and fast-tempo songs distract you from fatigue and amp up your workout, which helps you burn calories.
Try creating different playlists centered around your workout. Pop or dance remix songs are great for a hard run or a spin class. Grab your headphones and zone out to your favorite beats while you achieve your fitness goals. Here are some of our favorites:
"On The Floor" — Jennifer Lopez, Pitbull
"Rolling In The Deep" — Adele
"Poker Face" — Lady Gaga
"On to the Next One" — Jay-Z
"Levels"(Skrillex Remix) — Avicii
"My Life" — Slaughterhouse & Cee Lo Green
"Gangnam Style" — PSY
"Whistle" — Flo Rida
"Check It Out" — Will.I.Am and Nicky Minaj
"Club Can't Handle Me" — Flo Rida
"Harder to Breathe" — Maroon 5
"Who's That Chick?" — David Guetta
"Bon, Bon" — Pitbull
"Mr. Saxobeat" — Alexandra Stan
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Performing Cost Audit – Important Elements of Cost
1. Raw Materials:
- Raw materials and other materials which can be directly identified with production would normally constitute major part of the cost. The cost of raw materials, both in quantities and value, as given in the statements, should be verified. In case the transport cost of raw materials is a significant element of cost, as in the case of cement and sugar industry, the transport cost is determined separately. In case of imported raw materials, the various elements are: FOB value, ocean freight, insurance, custom duty, clearing/forwarding and inland freight. Withholding income tax and sales tax would be separately accounted for.
- Raw materials are the materials which directly go into the process of manufacture and physically constitute a part of the product; whereas there may be some direct materials, which are directly identifiable with the production process but only help production. Materials which are relatively of insignificant value viz. material although may be directly conducive to production also classified as indirect material. Data for raw materials consumption have to be provided for the year under audit, as well as for the previous two years, for comparison.
Material Consumption:
Components and parts in the case of engineering industries are referred to as direct materials. Material consumption would normally refer to material consumed in production. Every cost auditor knows how the figure of material consumption is worked out by deducting closing inventories, from the receipts and adding opening balance. Consumption of materials should be carefully checked with the issues to production processes. The use of the term "major raw materials", in para 4 of Appendix III to the Companies (Audit of Cost Accounts) Rules 1998, indicates all direct materials; some of which may be small in quantity and value but large in number, which may not be reported as required in this same para. Provisions of the cost accounting record rules should be kept in mind, as the rules also specify accounting requirements for raw materials and other direct and indirect materials.
Comparison with Standards or Estimates:
Various clauses of para 4 of Appendix III provide for comparison of the consumption of major raw material with the standard requirement, if any. If standards have not been worked out, there should be estimates on the basis of which management of the entity exercises control. In the absence of an estimate, the cost auditor should arrive at a standard or estimate, on the basis of his knowledge of the industry, as mentioned earlier. Variances from the standard or estimate and from the figures of the "preceding two years", should be looked into and commented upon by the cost auditor in his report.
Maintenance of Raw Material Quantity and Cost:
The relevant cost accounting record rules generally provide the manner in which the record of cost and quantity of raw materials shall be maintained and how the cost is arrived at. The cost of raw materials includes all direct charges up to works, such as freight, inward transport handling, insurance etc. The basis of "costing of raw material should be consistently followed", and should be commented upon by the cost auditor.
Components of Cost of Materials:
Cost accounting record orders/rules may provide the manner in which cost of purchases, cost of inspection and receipt should be included in the cost of the raw materials. The cost auditor should examine the procedures being followed in procuring, planning, purchasing, transporting, receiving, inspecting, that is all procedures and costs involved in making the materials available at the point of the production process. Moreover, realizable value of any waste material or by- product, which may have adjusted the cost of raw materials, be carefully considered and treated in accordance with the normal or standard cost control practice followed by the industry, according to the knowledge the cost auditor may have.
2. Wages and Salaries:
Para 5 of Appendix III of the Companies (Audit of Cost Accounts) Rules 1998, provides that the following particulars relating to wages and salaries be included in Cost Auditor's Report to the Director of the company:
- Total wages and salaries paid for all categories of employees, separately in respect of each of the following namely:
i. direct labour cost on production;
ii. indirect employees cost on production;
iii. employees cost on administration;
iv. employees cost on selling and distribution;
v. bonus to workers and employees;
vi. other employees cost, if any (including taxes and levies); and
vii. total employees cost (total of items (i) to (iv) above)
- Salaries and perquisites of directors and chief executive.
- Total man-days of direct labour available and actually worked for the year.
- Average number of workers employed for the year.
- Direct labour cost per unit of output of the product (give information in respect of each).
- Brief explanation for variances in item. (e) above, if any, as compared to the previous two years.
- Comments on the incentive schemes, if any, with particular reference to its contribution towards increasing productivity and its effect on cost of production.
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Well, I did it. I made it through the first whole week without sugar. Sunday and Monday I wanted to kill all the things. I mean really. I almost took vengeance my cell phone because it was running slowly.
Serious withdrawal symptoms, let me tell you; headaches, moodiness, aches and pains, the works. It's amazing the hold sugar has on the human body. But I made it through. I was tracking my meals, and there wasn't a day where I have more than 5 grams of added sugars. So essentially all my sugar came from fruits and veggies, which is the best way to do it. I am grateful to God that He was able to guide me through it and keep me pushing forward. I am blessed.
I have been seeing posts by others who are attempting the same thing, and so many naysayers who just want to bring them down. I have seen so many posts about how sugar is not addictive, and that it's the same sugar whether you eat fruit or chocolate, your body doesn't know the difference, etc.
Well, sugar is addictive. It may not be addictive for everyone, but it certainly is addictive for some. It's the same for any addictive substance. Some people can have alcohol now and then, or a cigarette, and not become addicted. Others have one and they are hooked. (To read an annotated bibliography I did on food addiction, largely dealing with sugar, click here.) So please, naysayers, if giving up the excess of added sugar in processed and junk food is helping someone feel better – mentally and physically – what is the point of trying to contradict him or her? Be supportive, not juxtaposed.
As far as "all sugar being the same" is concerned… well, yes and no. The sugar may be the same, but the quantity, frequency, and the way the body processes it is different. I've never heard of anyone getting a sugar rush from a handful of grapes. However, a handful of Sour Patch Kids can certainly cause a sugar high… and subsequent crash. When you eat fruit, the sugar is perfectly balanced with fiber and vitamins, so your body absorbs it more slowly. When you eat candy or sweets or a grande mocha latte, the sugar is "unfiltered" so to speak, and heads straight to your bloodstream, and brain. Think of it this way… If you mix a shot of alcohol with club soda or some other liquid and sip it over the course of an hour, most people won't get drunk. If you take a shot of that same alcohol, you get drunk pretty quickly. It's a lot, all at once, and your body absorbs and processes it that way. It's the same with sugar. The body takes a little longer to digest fruits and veggies, and therefore the sugar doesn't hit your bloodstream like an Indy car, then subsequently cause a "crash" later as you go through withdrawal. Again, it's like any drug, the high from the quick, strong dose wears off and you search for more to get the feeling back. With fruits and veg, the sugar doesn't hit you all at once, and therefore it doesn't leave all at once, causing the crash.
But anyway, enough about that. I've made it through the hard part of the sugar detox, so now I'm pushing forward to other things. My weight really hasn't changed, but that's OK, my body is still adjusting, and I wasn't as focused on quantity of food, just on omitting the sugar. So, one step at a time. Now I tackle bread. While I don't plan to cut it out completely, I need to detox from it for a bit. So starting today, I'm going to make it 2 weeks without bread. This might be harder than the sugar.
Wish me luck. My goal is to stick to an 80% Paleo diet, while still allowing for the occasional day where I don't worry about it. It's a marathon, not a sprint, and I just need to keep turning my thoughts to Jesus and know he will help me through it. Small, positive changes, one by one, that are accomplished consistently, all add up to major positive changes like health and wellness, and eventually weight loss. The key is to not get too far off the track. Once you do, you have to start from the beginning again. So, if I slip, the goal is to not have "two in a row" – two days of being off the wagon. Take the one moment of weakness, and don't let it turn into two. This mindset also keeps the guilt at bay, thus preventing a total breakdown of will.
I ask for your prayers as I begin the second stretch of my health-marathon. I want nothing more that to honor God with all I am and all I do, and I cannot do that when I am not at my best.
God bless and good health.


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In 1991, the Legislature found and declared that domestic violence is a serious crime against society. It found that thousands of persons in this State were regularly beaten, tortured and in some cases killed by their spouses or cohabitants. That a significant number of women were assaulted while pregnant. That victims of domestic violence came from all social and economic backgrounds. That there is a positive correlation between spousal abuse and child abuse and that children, even if they are not themselves physically assaulted, suffer deep and lasting emotional effects from exposure to domestic violence. The Legislature further found that some of its most vulnerable citizens, the elderly and disabled, are victims of domestic violence as well.
The Legislature also found that although many of the existing criminal statues were applicable to acts of domestic violence, societal attitudes concerning domestic violence have affected the response of the law enforcement and judicial systems resulting that these acts received different treatment from similar crimes when they occur in a domestic violence.
The Legislature additionally identified the training needs of police and judicial personnel in the procedure and enforcement of this act.
The New Jersey Domestic Violence Act provides for two forms of relief to a victim of domestic violence: Civil relief, which is in the form of obtaining a restraining order, and criminal relief, which allows a victim to
The Judiciary of New Jersey continues to be committed to responding to the needs of victims of domestic violence and their families and continues to make strides in effectuating the legislative mandates as set forth by the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act. The protective process that is offered by New Jersey is noted as one of the foremost in the country. This Website identifies current initiatives that the Judiciary has undertaken.
Under the federal Violence Against Women Act, a victim who has a restraining order from her/his home state and flees to another state to seek safety from further abuse may seek enforcement of the existing restraining order in the new state. The new state must provide full faith and credit to any existing restraining order or order of protection. The Family Practice Division of the Administrative Office of the Courts, the State Domestic Violence Working Group and members of its Full Faith and Credit Subcommittee, have been working diligently to ensure that a victim of domestic violence receives the protection
If you have a Domestic Violence Restraining Order or Order of Protection from another state or U.S. Territory and you now live in New Jersey or are moving to New Jersey, you have choices regarding your existing
1. Do nothing with the Order. New Jersey Courts and law
2. You can have your out-of-state Order recognized by New Jersey Superior Court, Chancery Division, Family Part, as a valid order or you
The Judiciary's Family Case Tracking System (FACTS) has the capacity to record out-of-state domestic violence restraining orders, which provides further protection to victims who have relocated to this state.
In October 1991, the first Domestic Violence Procedures Manual was promulgated by the Supreme Court and the Attorney General. The Procedures Manual receives revision as needed to accommodate legislative and statutory changes. The Procedures Manual was last revised in November 1998. The Procedures Manual contains standardized procedures and guidelines for the law
** Click here to access New Jersey's Domestic Violence Procedures Manual in its entirety
The Family Practice Division of the Administrative Office of the Courts assists in organizing training and or training on the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act. In 2001, members of this Division organized training
The State Domestic Violence Working Group, pursuant to its original mandate as directed by the New Jersey Supreme Court, is charged with the responsibility of resolving the systemic issues facing the courts in the area of domestic violence. The State Working Group is chaired by two Assignment Judges, and is comprised of thirty-eight individuals. Representatives to the
Various Subcommittees have been formed from the State Working Group to work on specific issues charged to that individual
In September 1991, the Supreme Court and the Attorney General issued a joint memorandum requesting that each Family Division Presiding Judge and County Prosecutor convene or reconvene a County Domestic Violence Working Group in each of New Jersey's twenty-one counties. The County Working Groups assist in the design of a county implementation and monitoring strategy of the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act and of the Domestic Violence Procedures Manual. They also provide, on an ongoing basis, a forum for the identification and resolution of problems in the domestic violence prevention and protection process in that county. The County Working Groups work closely with the Supreme Court's State Domestic Violence Working Group and with the Governor's Advisory Council on Domestic
Representatives to the County Working Group includes:
STOP Violence Against Women Act Grants
The Family Practice Division is the recipient of various federal grants through the State Office of Victim-Witness Advocacy. These grant
1) Domestic Violence CD-ROM containing the
In the past, all law enforcement agencies received hard
Distribution to more than a thousand agencies presented its own challenges to ensure that law enforcement had a continuous supply of TROs to meet their needs. This need was addressed by burning the TRO onto a CD-ROM which was distributed to all law enforcement agencies in October 2001. This CD
2) Victim Waiting Rooms
The need for Victim Waiting rooms in every county court has been a long-standing identified need for victims of domestic violence. Victims are too often forced to wait in communal waiting rooms with other litigants. As a result, they may be subjected to further victimization from defendants. Grant monies made possible the establishment of eight Victim Waiting Rooms in the following counties: Cumberland, Gloucester, Hudson, Mercer, Morris, Ocean, Salem and Union Counties. The waiting rooms will be completed by December 2002.
3) Domestic Violence Training Video Tapes
In a joint undertaking between the Family Practice Division of the Administrative Office of the Courts, the Division of Criminal Justice, and the New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women, domestic violence training video tapes are being developed to comply with the N.J.S.A. 2C:25-20 which mandates domestic violence training within 90 days of appointment, or transfer for all judges and judicial personnel as well as all law enforcement officers. These tapes will provide a tape library that will be made available for training on the dynamics of domestic violence, the law, and police
4) Domestic Violence Technical Assistance Team
This project began in 1999, and is comprised of the Assignment Judge/Somerset Vicinage and a Domestic Violence Specialist/AOC, Family Practice Division. (The project began to assist and ensure compliance with all Superior Courts Family Part handling and compliance with domestic violence practices and procedures in relation to the Domestic Violence Procedures Manual). The main goal of the project remains to continue to foster relationships with all 21 county Family Courts, to maintain uniformity with practices and procedures as set forth in the Domestic Violence Procedures Manual and the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act. The project provides on-going peer leadership, technical assistance, and hands-on guidance and support throughout the judiciary.
The Team has completed its rotation to visit, observe, and assess each county's domestic violence unit, in particular judges and staff performance in the handling of domestic violence cases as measured by "best practice" standards. Each visit was accomplished over a two-three day period of time. The Team will re-visit each county on a one-day basis to assess compliance with the recommendations made by the Team, and to ensure continued compliance with statewide procedures. The Team also attended each county's Domestic Violence Working Group meeting for observation of compliance with the mandate from the Attorney General and the Supreme Court, in 1991.
The Family Practice Division of the Administrative Office of the Courts presents a Report On The Prevention of Domestic Violence Act; N.J.S.A. 2C: 25-17 et seq. on a yearly basis. This report is a collection of comprehensive data reflecting a detailed picture of domestic violence filings, dispositions, and findings and this data provides critical information to the courts, the public and private agencies working to assist domestic violence victims and their families. In addition, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:29-9b this report also includes data on non-indictable contempt charges, which are processed in Family Court, and on violations of non-contact orders, or other offenses that require arrest and criminal charges,
The most present data January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2000 shows domestic violence complaint filings have remained relatively stable during the past six years, experiencing slight fluctuation in volume since the record high of 63,465 in 1995. While initial filings increased slightly in 1999, every other year between 1996-2000 has shown a slight decline. Domestic violence contempt filings also declined between 1999-2000, down from 10, 593 in
**The 2000 Statistical Report can be accessed here.
New Jersey's Domestic Violence Central Registry is now fully operational statewide. The registry makes available to law enforcement agencies and Family Court domestic violence personnel up-to-date information on all Restraining Orders entered into the Family Automated Case Tracking System (FACTS). The purpose of this registry serves as a valuable database for law enforcement to facilitate enforcement of Temporary and Final Restraining Orders, and protection to all victims as they move between municipalities, and counties within the state. The Registry is also helpful in providing firearms licensing information to law enforcement personnel for screening of individuals who apply for firearms licensing. This Registry was made possible through funding from the Federal STOP Violence Against Women Act, (VAWA), and through inter-agency cooperation among the Judiciary, the Attorney General's Office, the New Jersey State Police, and local law enforcement.
The Domestic Violence Hearing Officer (DVHO) program allows specifically selected and trained hearing officers to hear most requests for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) at the Superior Court Family Part. DVHO's are quasi-judicial personnel specifically trained and sensitized about domestic violence dynamics, issues, and the law to hear initial requests for TROs . Once a DVHO hears a matter and makes a recommendation, a Superior Court Family Part Judge then reviews the recommendations and if approved, the recommendations are incorporated into a TRO, and signed by a judge. The DVHO may only hear ex-parte TRO applications. Ex-parte applications are those applications when only one party is present. The DVHO has the ability to make a recommendation in most cases to award the same remedies as a Superior Court Family Part Judge except in certain excluded cases that include any matter in which a change in custody or visitation is requested, simultaneous cross-complaints, conflicts of interest, pending child abuse/neglect, or any other Family Part matter. A discretionary exclusion involves a matter,
The DVHO program began as a pilot program in 1993 in Hudson and Ocean counties, it became statewide in 1998. Presently, 17 out of New Jersey's 21 counties have a DVHO. Morris/Sussex vicinage shares the same DVHO who is seated in Morris County, but may hear applications for a TRO in Sussex County via video-conferencing. This is a pilot video-conferencing project that Salem, Warren, Hunterdon, and Cape May Counties may implement in the future. This program continues to be a valuable commitment to the overall effort afforded to domestic violence victims in the state of New Jersey. Use of the DVHO frees up limited judge time and minimizes the need to interrupt ongoing trials in order to provide the emergent relief. Extensive training continues to be a mainstay of the DVHO program in order to ensure the highest quality of service to the public.
Staff from the Family Practice Division assist in various projects that provide information and assistance regarding abuse & neglect cases to the elderly and vulnerable adults.
The Family Practice Division responds to inquiries regarding court procedures and the administrative operations of the Superior Courts, Family Part. Direct inquiries to: Assistant Director Joanne M. Dietrich, Family Practice Division, P. O. Box 983, R.J. Hughes Justice Complex, Trenton, NJ 08625.


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"Here we see his full power of transcendence, whereby the lower transcendence from underworld snake-consciousness, passing through the medium of earthly reality, finally attains transcendence to superhuman or transpersonal reality in its winged flight."
-- Joseph L. Henderson, "Ancient Myths and Modern Man" in
Carl Jung's Man and his Symbols
" To protect us against doctors there is no law against ignorance, no example of capital punishment.Doctors learn at our risk, they experiment and kill with sovereign impunity, in fact the doctor is the only one who may kill.They go further and make the patient responsible: they blame him who has succumbed" Plenius Secundus
"Doctor - inflicted pain and infirmity have always been a part of medical practice. Professional callousness, negligence, and sheer incompetence are age-old forms of malpractice".
" The medical diagnosis of substantive disease entities that supposedly take shape in the individual's body is a surreptitious and amoral way of blaming the victim. The physician, himself a member of the dominating class, judges that the individual does not fit into an environment that has been engeneered and is administered by other professionals, instead of accusing his colleagues of creating environments into which the human organism cannot fit. Substantive disease can thus be interpreted as the materialization of a politically convenient myth, which takes on substance within the individual's body when this body is in rebellion against the demands that industrial society makes upon it."
"The French Revolution gave birth to two great myths: one that physicians could replace the clergy; the other, that with political change society will return to a state of original health.Sickness became a public affair. In the name of progress, it has now ceased to be a concern of those who are ill ".
" The sudden emergence of the doctor as savior and miracle worker was due not to the proven efficacy of new technicuques but to the need for a magical ritual that would lend credibility to a persuit at which a political revolution had failed. If "sickness" and "health" were to lay claim to public resources, then these concepts had to be made operational. Ailments had to be turned into objective diseases that infested mankind, could be transplanted and cultivated in the laboratory, and could be fitted into wards, records, budgets, and museums. Disease was thus accommodated to administrative management; one branch of the elite was entrusted by the dominant class with autonomy in its control and elimination. The object of medical treatment was defined by a new, though submerged, political ideology and acquired the status of an entity that existed quite seperately from both doctor and patient ".
" We tend to forget how recently disease entities were born. In the mid-nineteenth century, a saying attributed to Hippocrates was still quoted with approval: ' You can discover no weight no form no calculationto which to refer your judgement of health and sickness.In the medical arts there exists no certainty except in the physician's senses'. Sickness was still personal suffering in the mirror of the doctor's vision.The transformation of thi medical portrait into clinical entity represents an event in medicine that corresponds to the achievement of Copernicus in astronomy: man was catapulted and estranged from the center of his universe. Job became Prometheus ".
"Before sickness came to be perceived primarily as an organic or behavioral abnormality, he who got sick could still find in the eyes of the doctor, a reflection of his own anguish and some recognition of the uniqueness of his suffering. Now, what he meets is the gaze of a biological accounant engaged in in-put/output calculations.His sickness is taken away from him and turned into the raw material for an institutional enterprise. His condition is interpreted according to a set of abstract rules in a language he cannot understand. He is taught about alien entities that the doctor combats, but only just as much as the doctor considers necesarry to gain the patient's cooperation. Language is taken over by the doctors: the sick person is deprived of meaningful words for his anguish, which is thus further increased by linguistic mystification. Before scientific slang had come to dominate language about the body, the repertory of ordinary speech in this field was exceptionally rich."
" When the evidence about the simplicity of effective modern medicine is discussed, medicalized people usually object by saying that sick people are anxious and emotionally incompetent for rational self-medication, and that even doctors call in a colleague to treat their own sick child; and furthermore, that malevolent amateurs could quickly organize into monopoly custodians of scarce and precious medical knowledge. These objections are all valid if raised within a society in which consumer expectations shape attitudes to service, in which medical resources are carefully packaged for hospital use, and in which the mythology of medical efficiency prevails. They would hardly be valid in the world that aimed at the effective pursuit of personal goals that an austere use of technology had put within the range of almost everyone".
" The image of a 'natural death', a death which comes under medical care and finds us in good health and old age, is a quite recent ideal. In five hundred years it has evolved through five DISTINCT STAGES, and is NOW ready for a sixth. Each stage has found its iconographic expression: 1)the fiftheenth century ' dance of the dead'; 2) the Renaissance dance at the bidding of the skeleton man, the so-called 'Dance of Death'; 3) the bedroom scene of the aging lecher under the Ancien Regime; 4) the 19th century doctor in his struggle against the roaming phantoms of consumption and pestilence; 5) the mid-twentieth century doctor who steps between the patient and his death; and 6) death under intensive hospital care . At each stage of its evolution the image of natural death has elicited a new set of responses that increasingly acquired a medical character. the history of natural death is the history of the medicalization of the struggle against death."
" The ability to survive longer, the refusal to retire before death, and the demand for medical assistance in an incurable condition had joined forces to give rise to a new concept of sickness: the type of health to which old age could aspire." [...]
"By contrast, a reverse judgement now could be made on the ailments of the poor, and the ills from which they had always died could be defined as untreated sickness.It did not matter at all if the treatment doctors could provide for these ills had any effect on the progress of the sickness; the lack of such treatment began to mean that they were condemned to die an unnatural death, an idea that fitted the bourgeois image of the poor as uneducated and unproductive. From now on the ability to die a 'natural' death was reserved to one social class: those who could afford to die as patients."
" As a member of the medical profession the individual physician is an inextricable part of scientific team. Experiment is the method of science, and the records he keeps-if he likes it or not-are part of the data for a scientific enterprise. Each treatment is one more repetition of an experiment with a statistically known probability of success. As in any operation that constitutes a genuine application of science, failure is said to be due to some sort of ignorance: insufficient knowledge of the laws that apply in the particular experimental situation, a lack of personal competence in the application of method and principles on the part of the experimenter, or else his inability to control that elusive variable which is the patient himself. Obviously, the better the patient can be controlled, the more predictable will be the outcome in this kind of medical endeavor. And the more predictable the outcome on a population basis, the more effective will the organization appear to be. The technocrats of medicine tend to promote the interest of science rather than the needs of society".
" There are two aspects to health: freedom and rights. Above all, health designates the range of autonomy within which a person exercises control over his own biological states and over the conditions of his immediate environment".
" One sure way to extinguish freedom to speak, to learn, or to heal is to delimit them by transmogrifying civil rights into civic duties. The freedom of the self-taught will be abridged in an overeducated society just as the freedom to health care can be smothered by overmedicalization. Any sector of the economy can be so expanded that for the sake of more costly levels of equality, freedoms are extinguished."
"The economics of health is a curious discipline, somewhat reminiscent of the theology of indulgences which flourished before Luther. You can count what the friars collect, you can look at the temples they build, you can take part in the liturgies they indulge in, but you can only guess what the traffic in remission from purgatory does to the soul after death."
"Medical care is uncertain and unpredictable; many consumers do not desire it, do not know they need it, and cannot in advance what it will cost them. They cannot learn from experience. They must rely on supplier to tell them if they have been well served, and they cannot return the service to the seller or have it repaired".
"Curiously, death became the enemy to be defeated at precisely the moment at which megadeath came upon the scene.Not only the image of 'unnecessary' death is new, but also our image of the end of the world. Death, the end of my world, and apocalypse, the end of the world, are intimately related; our attitudes towards both has clearly been deeply affected by the atomic situation. The apocalypse has ceased to be just a mythological conjecture and has become a real contingency. Instead of being due to the will of God, or man's guilt, or the laws of nature, Armageddon has become a possible consequence of man's direct decision. Cobalt, like hydrogen bombs, creates an illusion of control over death. Medicalized social rituals represent one aspect of social control by means of the self-frustrating war against death".
" the cost of coordinating the treatment of the same patient by several specialists grows exponentially with each added competence, as does the risk of mistakes and the probability of damage due to the unexpected combinations of different therapies. As the number of patient relationships outgrows the elements in the total population, the occupations dealing with medical information, insurance, and patient defense multiply unchecked. Of course, physicians lord it over these fiefts and determine what work these pseudo-professions should do. But with the recognition of some autonomy many of these specialized groups of medical pages, ushers, footmen, and squires have also gained some power to evaluate how well they do their own work. By gaining the right to self-evaluation, according to special criteria that fit its own view of reality, each new speciality generates for society at large a new impediment to evaluating what its work actually contributes to the health of patients. Organized medicine has practically ceased to be the art of healing the curable, and consoling the hopeless has turned into a grotesque priesthood concerned with salvation and has become a law unto itself. The policies that promise the public some control over the medical endeavor tend to overlook the fact that to achieve their purpose they must control a church, not an industry."
" The multiplications of paraprofessional specialists further decreases what the diagnostician does for the person who seeks his help, while the multiplication of generalist auxiliaries tends to reduce what uncertified people may do for each other or for themselves. Institutional licensing would indeed permit a more efficient deployment of personnel, a more rational health-manpower mix, and a greater opportunity for advancement. But if it became the model for the over-all health care, it would be equivalent to the creation of a medical Ma Bell. Lay control over an expanding medical technocracy is not unlike the professionalization of the patient: both enhance medical power and increase its nocebo effect. As long as the public bows to the professional monopoly in assigning the sich-role, it cannot control hidden health hierarchies that multiply patients".
" The issue of social iatrogenesis is often confused with the diagnostic authority of the healer. To defuse the issue and to protect their reputation, some physicians insist on the obvious: namely, that medicine cannot be practiced without the iatrogenic creation of disease. Medicine always creates illness as a social state. The recognized healer transmits to individuals the social possibilities for acting sick. Each culture has its own characteristic perception of disease and thus its unique hygienic mask. Disease takes its features from the physician who casts the actors into one sick of the avaiable roles. To make people legitimately sick is as implicit in the physician's power as the poisonous potential of the remedy that works. The medicine man commands poisons and charms. The Greek's only word for 'drug'-pharmakon-- did not distinguish between the power to cure and the power to kill.
Medicine is a moral enterprise and therefore inevitably gives content to good and evil. In every society, medicine, like law and religion, defines what is normal, proper, or desirable. Medicine has the authority to label one man's complaint a legitimate illness, to declare a second man sick though he himself does not complain, and to refuse a third social recognition of his pain, his disability, and even his death."
" It is medicine which stamps some pain 'merely subjective' , some impairment as malingering, and some deaths--though not others-- as suicide. The judge determines what is legal and who is guilty. The priest declares what is holy and who has broken a taboo. The physisian decides what is a symptom and who is sick. He is a moral entrepreneur, charged with inquisitorial powers to discover certain wrongs to be righted. Medicine, like all crusades, creates a new group of outsiders each time it makes a new diagnostic stick. Morality is as implicit in sickness as it is in crime or in sin."
"The delivery of remedies and access to services is unequal and arbitrary; it depends either on the patient's money and rank, or on social and medical prejudices ".
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Is being heterosexual a choice rather than genetically predetermined?
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It is natural to have a sex drive that can be, and is regularly directed toward and results in procreation. However, species maintenance is not the only objective when it comes to sex. To obtain pleasure through sex is an objective that is stated and fulfilled more frequently than is a desire advance the human species. The human species would "die out" if we didn't procreate, period. My argument does not depend on this natural fact, but rather focuses on sexual attraction as it is applied to either gender. I am making the point that behavior is not driven by genetic code, but is based on acquired preferences. I can accept your conclusion that nature provides a built in mechanism for driving us toward procreation, while maintaining that culture drives us toward many attractions that are not dependent on procreation. Sexual activity and attraction in our culture, when not dependent upon a desire to produce offspring, is driven by the perception of attractiveness. We can have a genetic preference for a certain diet that has little to do with what we actually eat. I am not judging the correctness of one's decision to eat the wrong diet or to use sex in an unprescribed way. I am making reference to how gender-preference decisions are arrived at through personal experiences and judgements.
You assert two things in your most recent argument that seem to contradict each other, or at least do not justify each other. "However, species maintenance is not the only objective when it comes to sex. To obtain pleasure through sex is an objective that is stated and fulfilled more frequently than is a desire advance the human species." I don't believe that obtaining pleasure through the sexual act has much to do with actual sexual ATTRACTION. If a guy offers a straight guy felatio, the straight guy can close his eyes and pretend that it is a girl doing it to him, and still receive the same amount of PHYSICAL pleasure to his genitals that he would from a girl. But, the sexual attraction that we feel towards each other, compelling us to form relationships and to have sex is a built in mechanism. I do not disagree that environmental factors such as taboos almost certainly play a role. However, a sexual attraction for more than just physical pleasure and catharsis (which can be obtained by masturbating) comes from an animalistic urge to reproduce, which is only possible with a member of the opposite sex. This point I believe can be reinforced by the fact that homosexuals are in the vast minority, as affirmed by a US census: 7% of women and 8% of men identify as some form of LGBT.
Thank you for your interesting arguments. I'll just jump right in with a quote. "Should we deny that a person has an attraction to the same gender when it, in fact exists." I am not disagreeing that attraction to the same gender exists. It was my understanding that the key point was whether this attraction was genetic or not. You say that you don't think homosexual tendencies and behaviors can be linked to an evolutionary trait, which I think is most obviously true, as they would've died out. But you say that it is culture that overrides our DNA to make us act certain ways. But how, in a culture so homophobic and anti-gay, could someone's genetic drive towards the other gender be overridden so that they go to the same gender? It can't, and is obviously caused by some sort of genetic difference. This is why people can be in the closet their whole lives: obviously it's not culture that influences them to be gay, because if the culture was pro-gay, they wouldn't be in the closet, they would be openly gay. Also, you can't say that since we don't live in olden times where we were running through the jungle, that our evolutionary behavior doesn't manifest in our daily lives. We still respond to stressors like a stressful job or lots of homework with the fight or flight response, even though we aren't getting attacked by Wooly Mammoths anymore. The same is for homosexuality; our brains didn't say "oh we don't really need to reproduce that much anymore, so actually I like men". That's just not how it works. We carry our behaviors with us that make us this species. And I do not believe that "cultural attraction" can override our genetic makeup telling us to mate with the opposite gender. And in the case of gay people it is a genetic abnormality, and not a cultural preference, because nobody would choose to be demonized from their society.
I did make reference to same sex "attraction" and not necessarily to a "tendency" toward those relationships.
You make a good point about the difficulty of allowing culture to override DNA given our lack of tolerance for a gay lifestyle. You correctly asked why, in the absence of a "genetic abnormality" anyone would choose that difficult. The answer lies partly in an examination of why we would "choose" to do anything that makes us uncomfortable, is risky, potentially unhealthy or is counter productive. People don't attribute a tendency toward procrastination to genetics. They might hate that trait and are unsure of the reasons that they continue to do it. A purely genetic response would remove the variability of choice, acquired tendencies and preferences, and create a purely homogenous trait-based culture subdivided and grouped solely by genetic indicators. Individual perspective would play an insignificant role. Our preferences, decisions and attractions are shaped primarily by the information we receive and how we perceive and process that information, rather than on genetics. Genetic codes, defined in the womb lay dormant while the mind is continually active, gathering information that is often incomplete or flawed, and is making decisions that have no traces back to a genetic predisposition. These genetic codes, established before birth would be predictive of future and present behavior. A baby, emerging from the womb with heterosexual attraction built in, should display that attraction immediately and measurably, since advancing the species is such a strong instinct. By altering or removing the genetic code, you could change the baby's future mind. Your earlier statistics state that our culture is 90% heterosexual. Statistics will also show that homosexuality has been on the rise even beyond the increase that is attributable to greater acceptance. The fact that, as it becomes more acceptable, the incidence increases demonstrates the pull cultural influences. We do not know how an individual would respond if born into 90% homosexual culture. While it might be informative, if not worthwhile to examine same sex attraction, this discussion focuses primarily on heterosexual attraction and the driving forces behind it. I believe in the role that genetics plays as far as defining our physical characteristics and initial mental capacity. But I don't believe that it drives our future attractions or preferences. To that, I give most of the credit to an acquired perspective.
Thank you for your arguments. You say "Your earlier statistics state that our culture is 90% heterosexual. Statistics will also show that homosexuality has been on the rise even beyond the increase that is attributable to greater acceptance. The fact that, as it becomes more acceptable, the incidence increases demonstrates the pull cultural influences." I would like to clarify that the statistic was of more cases of declared homosexuality; that is, you can't know for certain if someone is homosexual or not unless they tell you they are homosexual. So as time passes and our culture moves away from homosexual prejudice, more people are coming out and saying they are gay, and I don't think that you can actually claim that more people are gay as time goes by. There's no way of proving it. This furthers my claim in my opinion that homo or heterosexuality IS linked to genetics, but as our culture becomes more tolerant, more people are coming out and saying that they are gay. Now since this has all been extrapolation and anecdotes, let me provide some data. According to Richard Horton of PBS, there are several biological factors that could result in homosexuality. For instance, fruit flies, which display strikingly similar sexual tendencies to humans (such as courting, fighting over mates, etc.) have been shown to exhibit homosexuality, where two males would rub genitals together, lick each other's genitals, and rub male partners with their forelegs. These homosexual fruit flies, after analysis of their genetics in contrast to fruit flies displaying heterosexual tendencies, had an abno rmally activated gene called the W gene, which is found in humans, which the heterosexual flies did not have activated. In addition, A scientiest named LeVay found in a longitudinal study of homosexuals and heterosexuals that the homosexuals had a part of their hypothalamus severely smaller than their heterosexual counterparts.
Horton, Richard. "A 'gay Gene?'" Pbs.org. N.p., July 1995. Web
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"So as time passes and our culture moves away from homosexual prejudice, more people are coming out and saying they are gay, and I don't think that you can actually claim that more people are gay as time goes by. There's no way of proving it. This furthers my claim in my opinion that homo or heterosexuality IS linked to genetics, but as our culture becomes more tolerant, more people are coming out and saying that they are gay."
You indicated, correctly that there is no way of proving an unknown but then state your opinion that the mere existence of an unprovable unknown furthers your claim of a genetic link. You then state that cultural acceptance causes more people to "say" that they are gay. I'm not sure I understand the logic of these references.
I would agree that heterosexuality IS linked to genetics in the following way. The physical structure (apparatus) to support procreation is clearly attributable to genetics. I am less clear that there is a genetic determinant causing us to be, at some point attracted to say, a blonde female, or blonde anything, or female anything. Still, I am willing to make the presumption that there is in fact, a genetic link supporting heterosexual attraction, which is the point of this discussion. But, as I stated previously, I believe that those attractions are most strongly influenced by our perceptions, beliefs and conclusions about ourselves and others. Attractions, including those of a sexual nature are always subject to change, and do. But they change only as new beliefs are adopted. I don't believe that mere genetic manipulation would reverse the acquired beliefs that we have chosen to adopt. If you, too accept this, then you are signing onto the position that I have taken.
I appreciate your references to the fruit fly study, but don't be led by the title to believe that they've discovered a "gay gene". I would say of this study that most of your references to it point only to correlations, and that correlation does not imply causation. Horton observed fruit flies engaging in homosexual activities, but if they are so strikingly similar to humans, perhaps they are affected by environmental factors as well. Or, maybe the absence of adopted beliefs and molded perceptions might cause fruit flies to be driven by genetics alone. Through genetic manipulation you might change the mind and sexual orientation of the fruit fly, thereby proving that they are driven at least primarily by genetics. Ask yourself whether the same genetic manipulation would cause a human subject to suddenly and conclusively "become" gay or straight and to immediately be attracted to the "other" sex. The fruit fly article rightly, in my opinion, concludes that it is a "huge (and dangerous ) leap to extrapolate observations from fruit flies to humans." It also states that "Such arguments by analogy seem hopelessly inadequate." As far as LeVay's observations, "he noted that it was impossible to be certain whether the anatomical differences between the brains of gay and straight men were a cause or a consequence of their preference." LeVay saw the dilemma faced with these types of studies as indicated by his use of the word "impossible".
The studies are helpful to generate useful dialogue, but leave us with the same unanswered questions that we had hoped they would resolve.
In the acknowledged absence of scientific proof, we are ultimately left to support our positions with well developed conclusions from our own observations.
Yours were well-presented and appreciated.
I've enjoyed the debate and I thank you for your acceptance and participation.
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Posted by Kryptic 3 years ago
a nature V nurture debate.
This is most likely a slip under the hood asking if it's a nature / nurture to be gay or bi or neither gay bi or straight.
but although it's in a debate setting, it's only a question.
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… 135 qualify for Boot Camp
Auditions to select aspiring singers for the next stage of the X Factor competition have ended, with a total of 135 people selected from Abuja, Port Harcourt, Lagos, Kumasi and Accra.
Over 15,000 singers participated in the auditions, with Lagos having the highest figure of over 5,000 participants.
Globacom's Head of Reality Shows, Sulyman Bello, said the shortlisted contestants will now move to the next stage of the competition, the Boot camp, which opens on Monday, June 3, and closes on Tuesday, June 4.
Successful candidates from the Boot Camp will thereafter progress to the next stage which is the Judge's Home Visits scheduled for Wednesday, June 5 to Friday June 8. The judges are popular rapper Jude Abaga, widely known as M.I, father of Hip-life music, Ghana's Reggie Rockstone, and veteran singer, Onyeka Onwenu. During the Home Visits, the judges will further asses the contestants to prune them down.
Bello explained that the top 9 Acts from this level of competition will then move on to the next stage which is the live performances and eviction through voting by members of the public.
Rated as the world's biggest singing reality TV show, X Factor has been held in several countries including the United Kingdom, United States, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and Spain. This is, however, the first time it has come to Africa courtesy of Globacom.
Unlike other singing reality shows, X Factor is designed to find new talents irrespective of age. It is also the only format where judges also double as mentors and compete against each other, which ultimately leads to more excitement and, most importantly, ensures that the best talent emerges winner at the end of the day.
The N24 million (USD 150,000) cash prize being offered by Globacom is the biggest prize money for similar shows in Africa. The winner will also get a recording contract with the internationally acclaimed label, Sony Music.